American Jews, a reader
By: edited, with introductions and notes, by Marshall Sklare.
Contributors: Sklare, Marshall, 1921-
Series: Library of Jewish studies
Publisher: Behrman House
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Social conditions; Judaism -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Description: Explains the meaning and traditions of the Jewish Festival of Lights, which commemorates the driving out of Syrians from Jerusalem by a small band of Maccabees.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 440.
Includes index.